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Must Have Books

• The Art of Blacksmithing by Alex W. Bealer
  THE BIBLE for blacksmiths. Everything you need to know about basic and advanced techniques, shop setup, metal structure, tools, etc. Includes over 400 illustrations and blueprints.

• New Edge of the Anvil: A Resource Book for the Blacksmith by Jack Andrews

• The Art of Blacksmithing by Alex W. Bealer

• The Complete Modern Blacksmith by Alexander G. Weygers, Alexander Weygers

• Cognition and Tool Use : The Blacksmith at Work (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) by Charles M. Keller, Janet Dixon Keller

• Foxfire 5 : Ironmaking, Blacksmithing, Flintlock Rifles, Bear Hunting, and Other Affairs of Plain Living by Eliot Wigginton (Editor)

• Practical Blacksmithing and Metalworking by Percy W. Blandford

• Agricultural Engineering in Development : Advanced Blacksmithing: A Training Manual (Fao Agricultural Services Bulletin, No 88/3) by J.B. Stokes

• Basic Blacksmithing: An Introduction to Toolmaking With Locally Available Materials by David Harries, Bernhard Heer

• To Draw, Upset, and Weld: The Work of the Pennsylvania Rural Blacksmith, 1742-1935

• NEW! Colonial Ironwork in Old Philadelphia by Philip B. Wallace, William A. Dunn (Illustrator), Fiske Kimball (Introduction)

• NEW! The Early Ironwork of Charleston by Alston Deas, Richard J. Bryan (Illustrator)

• NEW! A History of Metallography : The Development of Ideas on the Structure of Metals Before 1890 by Cyril Stanley Smith; includes information on Damascus and folded steel

• NEW! Industry and Technology in Antebellum Tennessee : The Archaeology of Bluff Furnace by R. Bruce Council, Nicholas Honerkamp (Contributor), M. Elizabeth Will (Contributor)

• NEW! Shop Drawings of Shaker Iron and Tinware : Measured Drawings by Ejner Handberg, June Sprigg

• Metalworking Trades in Early America : The Blacksmith, the Whitesmith, the Farrier, the Edge Toolmaker, the Cutler, the Locksmith, the Gunsmith, by Henry J. Kauffman

• Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers (The Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&m University, No 35) by Jane Pattie

• NEW! The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio : The Classic Sixteenth-Century Treatise on Metals and Metallurgy by Vannoccio Biringuccio

• NEW! The Sounds and Colors of Power : The Sacred Metallurgical Technology of Ancient West Mexico by Dorothy Hosler

• Treasury of Ironwork Designs : 469 Examples from Historical Sources (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) by Carol Belanger Grafton

• American Iron, 1607-1900 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. New Series, 19) by Robert B. Gordon

• The Culture and Technology of African Iron Production by Peter R. Schmidt (Editor)

• The Complete Bladesmith : Forging Your Way to Perfection by Jim Hrisoulas

• Master Bladesmith : Advanced Studies in Steel by Jim Hrisoulas

• The Craft of the Japanese Sword by Leon Kapp, Hiroko Kapp, Yoshido Yoshihara, Tom Kishida

• NEW! A History of Metallography : The Development of Ideas on the Structure of Metals Before 1890 by Cyril Stanley Smith; includes information on Damascus and folded steel

• The Colt Whitneyville-Walker Pistol : A Study of the Pistol and Associated Characters 1846-1851 by Robert D. Whittington

• A Study of Colt Conversions and Other Percussion Revolvers by R. Bruce McDowell

• Colonel Burton's Spiller & Burr Revolver : An Untimely Venture in Confederate Small-Arms Manufacturing by Matthew W. Norman, Norman Matthew W.

• How to Build Your Own Flintlock Rifle or Pistol by George Lauber

• NEW! Art Deco Decorative Ironwork by Henri Clouzot

• NEW! Art Nouveau Decorative Ironwork : 137 Photographic Illustrations by Theodore Menten

• NEW! Colonial Ironwork in Old Philadelphia by Philip B. Wallace, William A. Dunn (Illustrator), Fiske Kimball (Introduction)

• Decorative Ironwork by Marian Campbell

• NEW! Decorative Ironwork : Wrought Iron Latticework, Gates, & Railings by Margarete Baur-Heinhold

• NEW! The Early Ironwork of Charleston by Alston Deas, Richard J. Bryan (Illustrator)

• NEW! Ornamental Ironwork : 690 Illustrations (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

  by Eugene-Antoine Durenne, Garol Belanger Grafton (Editor)

• NEW! Ornamental Ironwork : An Illustrated Guide to Its Design, History and Use in American Architecture by Susan Southworth, Michael Southworth, Charles C. Withers (Photographer)

• NEW! Ornamental Ironwork : Two Centuries of Craftsmanship in Albany and Troy, New York by Diana S. Waite

• NEW! Wrought Iron in Architecture by Gerald Geerlings

• NEW! Agricultural Hand Tools by Roy Brigden

• NEW! Die Design Fundamentals : A Step-By-Step Introduction to the Design of Stamping Dies Including Material, Punches, Die Sets, Stops, Strippers, Gages, by J. R. Paquin, R. E. Crowley

• NEW! Farm Tools and Techniques : An Illustrated History by Jonathan Brown

• NEW! Oxyacetylene Welding : Basic Fundamentals by Ronald J. Baird

• NEW! Techniques of Pressworking Sheet Metal : An Engineering Approach to Die Design by Donald F. Eary, Edward A. Reed

• NEW! The Welder's Bible by Don Geary

• NEW! Welding Skills by R. T. Miller

• NEW! Welding Technology Fundamentals by William A. Bowditch, Kevin E. Bowditch

• NEW! The Colouring, Bronzing, and Patination of Metals : A Manual for the Fine Metalworker and Sculptor : Cast Bronze, Cast Brass, Copper, and Copper-Plate by Richard Hughes, Michael Rowe (Contributor)

• NEW! A History of Metallography : The Development of Ideas on the Structure of Metals Before 1890 by Cyril Stanley Smith; includes information on Damascus and folded steel

• Exploring Metalworking : Fundamentals of Technology by John R. Walker

• NEW! Metallurgy Fundamentals by Daniel A. Brandt

• NEW! The Metals Databook by Alok Nayar

• NEW! The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio : The Classic Sixteenth-Century Treatise on Metals and Metallurgy by Vannoccio Biringuccio

• NEW! The Sounds and Colors of Power : The Sacred Metallurgical Technology of Ancient West Mexico by Dorothy Hosler

• Steels : Metallurgy and Applications by D. T. Llewellyn

• Austin : A History of the Capital City (Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series, No 10) by David C. Humphrey, David Humphrey

• The Alabama-Coushatta Indians (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&m University, No 71) by Jonathan B. Hook

• The Alamo Remembered : Tejano Accounts and Perspectives by Timothy M. Matovina

• The Alamo, and the Texas War of Independence, September 30, 1835 to April 21, 1836 : Heroes, Myths, and History by Albert A. Nofi

• The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston : An Architectural and Social History by Ellen Beasley

• Along the Texas Forts Trail by B. W. Aston, Ira Donathon Taylor, Rupert Norval

• As It Was : Reminiscences of a Soldier of the 3rd Texas Cavalry and the 19th Louisiana Infantry by Douglas John Cater

• Battlefields of Texas by Bill Groneman

• The Big Bend : A History of the Last Texas Frontier by Ronnie C. Tyler, Ron C. Tyler

• Border Wars of Texas by James T. Deshields

• Building the Lone Star : An Illustrated Guide to Historic Sites by T. Lindsay Baker

• The Caddo Indians : Tribes at the Convergence of Empires, 1542-1854 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&m University, N) by F. Todd Smith

• The Chicken War & Other Wild Stories About Texas by Patrick M. Reynolds

• The Civil War in Apacheland : Sergeant George Hand's Diary, California, Arizona, West Texas, New Mexico, 1861-1864 by George Hand

• Civil War Recollections of James Lemuel Clark and the Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas in October 1862 (Military History Series (Republic of Texas) by James Lemuel Clark, L. D. Clark (Editor)

• Corpus Christi : The History of a Texas Seaport by William Walraven, Ron George (Translator)

• Cottonclads! : The Battle of Galveston and the Defense of the Texas Coast (Civil War Campaigns and Commanders) by Donald S. Frazier, Grady McWhiney (Editor)

• Cowboy Fiddler in Bob Wills' Band by Frankie McWhorter, John R. Erickson, Lanny Fiel (Introduction)

• Defending Mexican Valor in Texas : Jose Antonio Navarro's Historical Writings, 1853-1857 by Jose Antonio Navarro, David R. McDonald, Timothy M. Matovina

• Documents of Texas History by Ernest Wallace, David M. Vigness, George B. Ward

• El Llano Estacado : Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, 1536-1860 by John Miller Morris

• The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days by Noah Smithwick

• Five Years a Cavalryman; Or, Sketches of Regular Army Life on the Texas Frontier, 1866-1871 (Western Frontier Library, Vol 62) by H. H. McConnell

• Fort Davis : Outpost on the Texas Frontier (Fred Rider Cotten Popular History, No 8) by Robert Wooster

• From Sail to Steam : Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History, 1500-1900 by Richard V. Francaviglia

• Frontier Defense in the Civil War : Texas' Rangers and Rebels by David Paul Smith

• Historic Ranches of Texas by Lawrence Clayton, J. U. Salvant (Illustrator)

• Historical Atlas of Texas by A. Ray Stephens, William M. Holmes

• Houston : The Unknown City, 1836-1946 by Marguerite Johnston

• The Indians of Texas : From Prehistoric to Modern Times by William Wilmon Newcomb

• Inherit the Alamo : Myth and Ritual at an American Shrine by Holly Beachley Brear

• Journal of an Indian Trader : Anthony Glass and the Texas Trading Frontier, 1790-1810 (Texas A&M Southwestern Studies, No 4) by Anthony Glass, Dan L. Flores (Editor)

• The Karankawa Indians of Texas : An Ecological Study of Cultural Tradition and Change (Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series by Robert A. Ricklis

• Los Mestenos; Spanish Ranching in Texas, 1721-1821 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students) by Jack Jackson

• The Mexican National Army, 1822-1852 (Texas A & M University Military History Series, No 52) by William A. Depalo, Jr.

• On the Prairie of Palo Alto : Historical Archaeology of the U.S.-Mexican War Battlefield (Texas A & M University Military History Series, 55) by Charles M. Haecker, Jeffrey G. Mauck

• Outlaws in Petticoats and Other Notorious Women of Texas (Women of the West) by Ann Ruff, Gail Drago

• The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston : 1839-1845 (Vol 1) by Sam Houston, Madge Thornall Roberts (Editor)

• Plantation Life in Texas (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series, No 1) by Elizabeth Silverthorne

• The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain : A Documentary History : The Central Corridor and the Texas Corridor, 1700-1765) by Diana Hadley (Compiler), Thomas H. Naylor (Compiler), Mardith Schuetz-Miller

• The Ragged Rebel : A Common Soldier in W.H. Parsons' Texas Cavalry, 1861-1865 by B. P. Gallaway

• Rebellious Ranger : Rip Ford and the Old Southwest by William J. Hughes

• Remember Goliad! : A History of La Bahia (Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series, No 9)

• Rip Ford's Texas by John Salmon Ford

• Roadside History of Texas (Roadside History) by Leon C. Metz

• Sam Houston With the Cherokees, 1829-1833 by Jack Gregory, Rennard Strickland

• Sharps Rifles and Spanish Mules : The San Antonio-El Paso Mail, 1851-1881 by Wayne R. Austerman

• Six Years With the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881 by James B. Gillett

• NEW! The Sounds and Colors of Power : The Sacred Metallurgical Technology of Ancient West Mexico by Dorothy Hosler

• Spanish Expeditions into Texas, 1689-1768 by William C. Foster

• Spanish Texas, 1519-1821 by Donald E. Chipman

• Tejano Legacy : Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734-1900 by Armando C. Alonzo

• Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio by Gerald E. Poyo, Gilberto M. Hinojosa (Editor)

• Tejanos and Texas Under the Mexican Flag 1821-1836 (The Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, No. 54) by Andres Tijerina

• Texas & Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690 by Juan Bautista Chapa, William C. Foster, Ned F. Brierley (Translator)

• Texas Boundaries : Evolution of the State's Counties (The Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, No 59) by Luke Gournay

• The Texas Cherokees : A People Between Two Fires 1819-1840 (The Civilization of the American Indian, Vol 203) by Dianna Everett

• A Texas Frontier : The Clear Fort Country and Fort Griffin, 1849-1887 by Ty Cashion

• Texas History Time Line by Betsy Warren

• The Texas Longhorn : Relic of the Past, Asset for the Future (Essays on the American West, No 8) by Donald Emmet Worcester

• Texas Missions (Texas Monthly Guidebooks) by Nancy Haston Foster

• A Texas Ranger by N. A. Jennings, Stephen L. Hardin (Introduction)

• Texas Ranger : Jack Hays in the Frontier Southwest (The Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&m University, No 50) by James Kimmins Greer

• The Texas Rangers : A Century of Frontier Defense by Walter Prescott Webb, Lonnie Rees (Illustrator)

• Texian Iliad : A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 by Stephen L. Hardin, Gary S. Zaboly (Illustrator)

• This Band of Heroes : Granbury's Texas Brigade, C.S.A by James M. McCaffrey

• Why Stop? : A Guide to Texas Historical Roadside Markers by Betty Dooley Awbrey, Claude Dooley, Texas Historical Commission

• With Santa Anna in Texas : A Personal Narrative of the Revolution by Jose Enrique De La Pena, Carmen Perry (Translator)

• Xit Ranch of Texas and the Early Days of the Llano Estacado by J. Evetts Haley